Simon Jang
Software Engineer at Qargo TMS
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSimon Jang is a full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in Node.js, TypeScript, and modern front-end frameworks like Angular, with hands-on side projects in Svelte and Vue. He has built scalable serverless microservices on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) and is comfortable across SQL and NoSQL data stores, as well as DataOps patterns such as data lakes and ETL/event streams. Simon combines pragmatic engineering—knowing when software should be “good” versus “perfect”—with strong customer-focused problem analysis and ownership of end-to-end solutions. He contributed backend optimizations to the popular benawad/destiny repo, improving algorithmic efficiency and CLI features for file-structure tooling. Fast-learning and adaptable, he has additional experience in Java, C#, and Python, and a background that spans journalism and applied computer science. Based in Ghent, he is passionate about open source and eager to deepen his expertise in data engineering and new frameworks like React.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Latijn-Moderne Talen, Latijn-Moderne Talen at Pleinschool KortrijkBachelor's degree, Journalism, Bachelor's degree, Journalism at ArteveldehogeschoolBachelor's degree, Toegepaste Informatica, with honors, Bachelor's degree, Toegepaste Informatica, with honors at Hogeschool Gent
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (20)
algorithm10
code-optimization10
algorithms10
filesystem10
javascript10
file-manipulation10
optimisation10
fileio10
numerical-optimization10
nodejs10
optimization10
jes9
jtest9
jestjs9
command-line7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benawad/destiny
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Prettier for File Structures
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Simon focused on improving the efficiency and structure of the `destiny` project, a tool designed for managing file structures. Their contributions primarily involved refactoring and optimizing the code for finding shared parent directories, addressing time complexity issues. They also added a feature to rename single files via a CLI flag and implemented changes to detect lonely files and restructure them in the file system. Additionally, the user made some minor adjustments to the end-to-end tests.
javascripttypescriptprettier
SimonJang/SimonJang.github.io
Aug 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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